Gerard Lanscroon was a

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artist who worked in

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. His father was the sculptor Valentin Lanscroon, who worked as a carver at

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in 1695–96. Gerard completed work at

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, and murals at

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and on the staircase at

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, London. The murals at Broomfield House were damaged by fires in 1984 and 1994.

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